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Bay Brook Park

Bay Brook Park from directly overhead

Bay Brook Park is a park in Maryland, at a modelled elevation of 42 m. Ivy Hill stands 200 m to the north-northwest, 17 miles off. The nearest named place is Black Butterfly Teaching Farm, a garden 0.1 miles away. National Historic Seaport passes 2.7 miles off. 27 named summits stand within 25 miles.

What to expect

Operated by
Baltimore City Department of Recreation & Parks

How to reach it

Coordinates39.22718, -76.59411

Overlooks nearby

Named places within 25 miles

Gardens
Artworks
Parks
  • Farring Baybrook Park: 0.3 mi
  • Curtis Bay Park: 0.4 mi
  • Duane Avenue Park: 0.4 mi
  • Arundel Village Park: 0.5 mi
  • Brooklyn Heights Park: 1.0 mi
Historic sites
Nature reserves
Museums
Peaks: 27
  • Federal Hill: 3.7 mi
  • Tank Hill: 4.1 mi
  • German Hill: 5.5 mi
  • Lawyers Hill: 7.2 mi
  • Prospect Hill: 7.6 mi
Picnic sites: 19
  • Etting Park: Hope Garden: 5.8 mi
  • Avalon Area: 7.0 mi
  • Glen Artney Area: 7.2 mi
  • Hilton Shelters: 8.2 mi
  • Orange Grove Area: 8.4 mi
Beaches: 19
Cliffs: 10
  • Quarry (former): 10.6 mi
  • Quarry (former): 10.6 mi
  • Quarry (former): 10.7 mi
  • Friction Wall: 10.9 mi
  • Balancing Reservoir Spillway: 13.6 mi
Springs: 5
  • Crises Spring: 7.2 mi
  • Mountain Pass Spring: 7.4 mi
  • Marble Springs: 13.7 mi
  • Indian Springs: 22.5 mi
  • Sandy Spring: 23.6 mi
Waterfalls: 4
Lighthouses: 2
Ghost towns: 1

Summits around it

The highest named summits within 25 miles of Bay Brook Park. Elevation from each summit’s own record; bearing measured between the two coordinates.

SummitBearingElevationDistance
Ivy HillNNW 345°200 m16.6 mi
Oregon RidgeNNW 345°191 m18.6 mi
Chestnut HillWNW 294°169 m11.8 mi
The BunkerNW 315°157 m22.3 mi
Abell RidgeN 351°155 m12.9 mi
Satyr HillNNE 12°151 m12.6 mi
Cherry HillNNE 25°149 m19.1 mi
Cub HillNNE 17°147 m13.4 mi

When to go

Light through the year

DateSunriseGolden hourSunset
March equinox07:1118:4319:19
June solstice05:4119:5720:37
September equinox06:5518:3019:05
December solstice07:2316:0516:47

Local time (America/New_York).

Climate normals

Months averaging 50–80 °F: Apr–Jun, Aug–Nov.

JanFebMarAprMayJunJulAugSepOctNovDec
Avg °F373947586777827973615041
Precip in3.12.83.93.53.43.44.74.34.53.53.03.7

1991–2020 U.S. Climate Normals, NOAA NCEI — Maryland SCI CTR, 4 mi away.

  • Bald Eagle163 obs
  • Monarch123 obs
  • White-tailed Deer115 obs
  • Pond Slider92 obs
  • Northern Mockingbird90 obs
  • Common Buckeye83 obs
  • groundsel tree83 obs
  • Mallard77 obs

Research-grade iNaturalist community observations within 3 km — what people have recorded, not a species inventory.

Where this comes from

Location and category confirmed against OpenStreetMap.

OpenStreetMapWikidata

OpenStreetMap element way/286930171

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